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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

One need only look within Ford’s executive ranks to see the technology talent driving its digital future: Doug Field, Ford’s chief electric vehicle (EV) and digital systems officer, and Rob Bedicheck, executive director of platform architecture, were both recruited from Apple.

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IT as a catalyst for business transformation: Strategies for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Most importantly, IT leaders should define the cloud architecture and put the solution in place for the business stakeholders to leverage, otherwise they risk each stakeholder creating their own cloud infrastructure making for a fragmented environment that is difficult to manage, secure, and optimize. hyperscale, private cloud).

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Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collabo.

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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

CIO Business Intelligence

What is the business transformation currently underway at Informatica? The business transformation we’ve led for the last several years has many parts; all our products have been re-built as cloud products and we continue our heritage of being neutral about data, supporting cloud, on premise, and hybrid workloads.

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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. Christ also said generative AI is key to the company’s growth.

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Leaning into Retail’s Challenges with Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Are they successfully untangling their “spaghetti architectures”? Untangling Their ‘Spaghetti Architectures’ Retailers have long used back-end technologies to run specific aspects of their business. To compete in the future, retailers will have to create architectures that rethink the entire flow of data through their systems.

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At Black & Veatch, a new IT operating model enables digital opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

I recently spoke with Bishop to learn his perspective on IT’s role in business transformation. Martha Heller: What is the business transformation underway at Black & Veatch? How would you describe your target architecture? This platform architecture allows us to do three things quickly: sense, decide, and act.